Communication is a skill, and the vast majority of people have not been trained in it.
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They are a useful visual indicator that something is a variable, so they don't bother me.
Newer versions of Perl add post-dereference syntax which reduces the line noise.
The problem is having no choice but to participate in a closed app store with opaque rules with no oversight or appeals.
"We're sorry, but your app will be removed until you can satiafy legal reatrictions for Saudi Arabia, Popua New Guinea, France and Alabama."
> All-electric vehicles typically require less maintenance than conventional vehicles because:
> The battery, motor, and associated electronics require little to no regular maintenance
> - There are fewer fluids, such as engine oil, that require regular maintenance
> - Brake wear is significantly reduced due to regenerative braking
> - There are far fewer moving parts relative to a conventional fuel engine.
It might be worth going on a city group on Reddit and asking about any, and otherwise try to start one.
One thing to keep in mind is that different times of day are good for different people.
Evening meetings every month in pubs are popular, but for many reasons a lot of people don't like to go to pubs or drink alcohol with strangers.
Meetings during lunch or morning "techie brekkie" before work are sometimes popular, but ideally in a central location where it's easy for developers can easily get to before work or during lunch.
But anyone who is angered by the existence of these lists because someone might not deserve to be on them.... is worth mocking.
Of all the injustices committed by governments and corporations and even some wealthy people, that ranks pretty low.
That people need to share a secret list of powerful members of parliament who have a history of abusing their colleagues isn't what makes you angry?
It creates buggy software because the team members have to coordinate with more people.
People have a right to share information with each other about abusive people or places who should be avoided.
The lists could be campus rapists, or bad drunks, toxic places to work, or a list of towns or businesses that aren't safe for black or queer folk to visit.
Most of these informal lists have been around for decades. For some people, these lists help them to avoid some dangerous people or places.
Are there some people in these lists who don't deserve to be? Probably.
But how are you going to regulate it? It's speech after all.
They are actually circulated among victims and their friends, with a lot of validation of repeat offenders. So there is a lot of informal collective information gathering and confirmation.
They are lists of men to avoid dating or not trust them to buy you a drink.
And the lists are a reaction to the difficulty of holding them accountable. Universities have been bad about punishing their students for criminal behaviour, because they want their tuition, don't want to offend their wealthy alumni parents, and have a misguided fear of ruining the lives of relatively young people (even if they are legally adults).
Unfortunately some of the people who get away with abusing their fellow students will go on abusing their colleagues the rest of their lives.
So if you want to keep people from being unfairly put on these anonymous lists, then you need to make these lists unnecessary.
Oh the humanity!!!!!!!!!!!!
Accidents happen, and will always happen. They aren't being covered up, and most don't require a public announcement.
When I was in university, there was a women's bathroom in one of the buildings that was noted to have a list of alleged rapists (students and professors) written on the walls. The cleaners intentionally never removed it.
"Bring levity in kind"
Companies have an incentive to make money off of their customers' data, and technology just means that they can make money at every level (your ISP, your smart TV, the apps you use on it and the websites your browse).
We're so accustomed to entities gathering data about us that it's become part of the background.
Why is it the default that my home is on Google Maps/Google Earth? I should have to opt in, not opt out.
Just because there is "public" information about me as a registered voter or home owner doesn't mean that anyone should be able get a copy of this data, put it online and connect it to other data?
Contrast that with other areas where people who contributed significant amounts of work towards research often get omitted from the work.
I note this from experience as a former academic and being close friends/family with academics.
Animation control is where things start to get weird.
Another trick is that you don't need a giant pot of water, just enough to cover the pasta, especially for smaller pasta like penne/fusilli etc.
When I attended university in the mid-1990s, and again in mid-2000s, we were required to hand in papers using monospace font, black ink, with a specific point size and margins.
It kept everything looking consistent with typewriters (which some people still used through the 1990s), but also kept people from using distracting or illegible fonts, or trying to work around page or word limits by using different fonts.
Report about the cost of housing driving people to homelessness? That's the "left-wing media".
Report about people grifting off of BLM protects? It's the "right wing corporate media".
And those stories can very well be in the same newspaper or news show.
It's depressing seeing friends fall down conspiracy theory rabbit holes, or publicly wallow in their racism.